Crafts for April

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My theme this week is butterflies so today we made pompom caterpillars, put them into cocoons (covered toilet paper roll with tissue paper stuffed into each end) and they are sleeping overnight to turn into butterflies tomorrow. I'm going to have the children colour coffee filters with markers then you spritz a little water onto that and let it dry and gather it in the middle with a pipecleaner to make the butterfly.

Next week our theme is insects so we'll make our insect craft with a painted egg carton section and pipecleaners, googly eyes, etc. The next week our theme is birds and once I used mostly intact eggshells dipped in blue food colouring, turned them upside down and put little wings and eyes on them and made nests out of shredded paper. We'll do that again this year. I'm able to recycle craft ideas this year because I have had an entire enrollment changeover since I started.

Then we have a trees and leaves theme and we'll make a mural for the wall. I cut tree trunks out of brown construction paper and let the children glue on oval leaves from green paper. Then they add stickers of squirrels, birds, butterflies, insects, etc.

I'm singing a spring song to the tune of The Farmer in the Dell. You can say anything you can think of like: The bears are waking up, the bears are waking up, springtime is merry-o, the bears are waking up. Then lots of other choruses: the grass is getting green; the flowers start to bloom; the birds begin to sing; the trees are getting buds; the bunnies start to hop; it's endless.

Google for any idea you have and you'll find tons of stuff.